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...hypocritical, self-serving rationale and the ignored consequences. Doesn't anyone remember President Eisenhower's eloquent warning about the military-industrial complex and its potential for misplaced power? Doesn't anyone recall the lessons of history, about how countless nations have bankrupted themselves morally and financially through the same toxic blend of paranoia, patriotism and hubris peddled by the Bush Administration? Our biggest danger isn't from Saddam Hussein; it's from an Administration's obsession that is compounded by congressional acquiescence. Fred Drumlevitch Tucson, Ariz...
Think being green is as simple as separating paper and plastic? Leading an environmentally aware life is one thing, but disposal afterward is quite another. Cemeteries take up land; traditional burials (which cost about $7,000) may use caskets that rust from the inside out; and spillage from toxic embalming chemicals, according to the Funeral Consumers Alliance, can be flushed into the general sewerage system. Three ways to rest in green peace...
Harvard’s purchase of the Arsenal—once covered with toxic waste before $100 million of federal, state and local money was used to clean the property—attracted the attention of a variety of politicians...
...Numbers 12 days is how long a newborn has to spend in Los Angeles to exceed the U.S. government's limit on lifetime acceptable exposure to toxic air pollution, according to a study by the National Environmental Trust 55,553 liters is how much aviation-grade fuel was in a tanker truck headed for the U.S. military base in Bagram, Afghanistan, when nine concealed sticks of dynamite were discovered inside by police 25 years is how long a German man lived in an Australian bus shelter before he died last week $9 million is the bounty Osama bin Laden offered...
...scrabbling up a steep scree slope to get a closer look at Koofai Nuamuri, the turquoise Lake of the Virgins and the deepest of the three craters. A goat track of a path wound around its lip. Hundreds of meters down, spread like the icing on some toxic cupcake, lay the green lake, marbled with veins of sulfurous yellow. A weatherworn signpost near the summit proclaimed that the lakes were black, white and red. "That was back in the 1970s," said Dagama, my guide. "They've changed colors many times since then...